People regularly lose £18,000 in one hour

This figure is often banded around by our detractors, however it is simply wrong. To put this into perspective, the odds of losing every time over the course of one hour is the same as winning the National Lottery three weeks in a row. It just doesn’t happen.

A player would also have to walk into a bookmaker’s shop with £18,000 in his or her pocket. That too doesn’t happen.